Installing TensorFlow on windows with Anaconda

In this tutorial I will teach steps for Installing TensorFlow on windows with Anaconda.

In this tutorial I will teach steps for Installing TensorFlow on windows with Anaconda.

Steps of Installing TensorFlow on windows with Anaconda

In this tutorial we are going to teach you step by step process of Installing
TensorFlow on windows with Anaconda. We will install Anaconda for python 3.6 and
then install TensorFlow CPU version.

Anaconda is open source feature rich distribution of python which comes with
large number of package for machine learning. Its very easy to download a new
package with anaconda tool. It helps developers to quickly install and create
their development environment on windows and other operating system.

Anaconda python distribution supports R and Python programming language which
can be used to develop various machine learning applications. Anaconda
distribution of Python can be used develop application for large scale data
processing, machine learning, predictive analysis and performing various
scientific calculations. Its Python distribution for data scientist and
mathematicians.

Anaconda distribution are available for:

Windows

Linux

MacOSX

Developers can download the installer and install on their computer.

Installing TensorFlow on windows with Anaconda

Step 1: Download Anaconda

Visit the website https://anaconda.org/
and then go to the "Download Anaconda" section. Here you will find
that its available in two versions:

Python 3.6 version

Python 2.7 version

As per your requirement you can download any of the version. But for
TensorFlow we are using Python 3.6 version. So click on the "Python 3.6 version"
--> 64-Bit Graphical Installer (515 MB) download link as shown below:

Step 2: Install Anaconda

Now the next step is to install Anaconda on Windows, for this double click
the installer and it will start installation. Follow the steps and complete
installation. Following video tutorial will guide you in installing Anaconda on
Windows.

Vide Tutorial: Installing Anaconda on Windows

After installation and testing of Python you can start installing TensorFlow.

Step 3: Install TensorFlow with Anaconda

Here is complete video instruction of installing Tensor flow on Windows with
anaconda:

In the final step we will install TensorFlow with Anaconda and run a simple
TensorFlow program. We will use the Anaconda prompt to install TensorFlow. Go to
"Windows" --> Search for "Anaconda Prompt" as shown below:

Then right click on the Anaconda Prompt program and run as administrator.

Then run the following command to create an environment named "tensorflow":

conda create -n tensorflow python=3.5

Then activate this environment with following command:

activate tensorflow

Now you can either install CPU or GPU based TensorFlow. In this tutorial I am
installing CPU based TensorFlow.

To install the CPU-only version of TensorFlow:

pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade tensorflow

To install the GPU version of TensorFlow:

pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade tensorflow-gpu

Now we can test TensorFlow in Pyton console. Open python console with
following command: